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65 articles available in total starting from 16/03/2005. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

Interview: Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they head out on the last leg of their tour  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Backstage

Review: Backstage

VENICE 2023: The feature debut by directorial duo Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane recreates the vibrant and chaotic universe of what goes on behind the scenes of a touring dance troupe  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Mohamed Kordofani  • Director of Goodbye Julia

Interview: Mohamed Kordofani • Director of Goodbye Julia

"The friendship story in my film is a model for the political situation in Sudan, and for a possible reconciliation"

CANNES 2023: The Sudanese director discusses his first feature, a film that strikes a balance between a political and cultural backdrop and a highly intimate plot  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Kaouther Ben Hania  • Director of Four Daughters

Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of Four Daughters

"It was interesting to bring actors, like mirrors, face to face with real characters"

CANNES 2023: The Tunisian director, in the running for the Palme d'Or for the first time, explains her unique approach, which blurs the line between documentary and fiction  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: Goodbye Julia

Review: Goodbye Julia

CANNES 2023: Sudanese director Mohamed Korfani makes an entrance with a highly accomplished first feature film, exploring the conflicts in his country by way of an intimate, female story  

21/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Four Daughters

Review: Four Daughters

CANNES 2023: Kaouther Ben Hania shines a light on the complex place that women occupy in Tunisia through the story of a family and an original hybridation between documentary and fiction  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: Inshallah a Boy

Review: Inshallah a Boy

CANNES 2023: In this debut feature by Jordanian director Amjad Al Rasheed, a widow contends with the country’s patriarchal inheritance laws, as her only child is a daughter  

18/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Thierno Souleymane Diallo  • Director of The Cemetery of Cinema

Interview: Thierno Souleymane Diallo • Director of The Cemetery of Cinema

“As people say, a tree without roots cannot grow; films are also parts of these roots”

The Guinean filmmaker is determined to find a lost movie, 1953’s Mouramani - or maybe even his own childhood  

16/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

Review: The Cemetery of Cinema

Review: The Cemetery of Cinema

BERLINALE 2023: In this surprisingly complex doc, Thierno Souleymane Diallo goes off in search of a lost movie. Shoeless  

27/02/2023 | Berlinale 2023 | Panorama

Review: Alam

Review: Alam

Firas Khoury’s debut feature is a fiery and engaging exploration of youth, politicisation and forced forgetting  

19/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Contemporary World Cinema

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